History spot
“…Give me the keys or die!”
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Vladimir Domarev first came to Norilsk in May 1925 as a member of the fourth Norilsk expedition led by Pavel Alliluyev. Here, together with Nikolay Urvantsev, he examined mount Rudnaya. In 1936, Domarev was arrested and given ten years in prison under the “political” ...
“Put the newspaper in its place and punish the article author!”
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The memories of the newspaper first employees, in particular Nina Baluyeva, one of the first journalists, have been preserved. “The rumor about Norilsk publishing its own city newspaper appeared right after the former polar village acquired the city status. It must be said that by ...
“Father Frost… in felt boots”
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In 1964, he came to Norilsk and suddenly became “sick” of its history. He began collecting newspaper clippings, extracts from orders, and mentions in books. He even came up with his own system - a card index of facts. A slight man, a single ...
Story of Netherlands Separating from Spain translated into thieves’ jargon
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. They worked on the combine construction and wrote “under the mattress”: Lev Gumilyov - the son of Anna Ahmatova and Nikolay Gumilyov, Kalmyk poet David Kugultinov, “literary father” of Captain Vrungel Andrey Nekrasov, literary critic and one of the first members of the USSR ...
“Only one ski on the plane broke…”
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. There are memories of the first Norilsk pilots’ work. Here, for example, is Vladimir Lebedinsky’s essay about Stepan Verebryusov. “...1942. Builders quickly installed thermal power plant units and complex communications of steam, water and gas pipelines, high-voltage workers completed the construction of the transmission line, ...
250 thousand Norilsk residents greeted Mikhail Gorbachev
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The trip took place as part of a visit to the Krasnoyarsk region, and in the same year the book Five Days in September, dedicated to the visit, was published in the regional capital. Of course, not everything was as smooth as she described. ...
“Everything here is northernmost on the globe”
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The city in the Arctic became the highlight of the excursion program for traveling along the Yenisey. In the late 1950s, Norilsk was included in guidebooks. Today it’s interesting to look through them: some have ceased to be attractions, and some have not come ...
Norilsk TPP’s whistle heard 50 kilometers from Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. On important occasions it buzzed for 20-30 minutes. It buzzed in 1942 - in honor of the thermal power plant launch, and it also hummed in 1945, on Victory Day. “We listened to the whistle like an anthem, stood with our heads bare”, the energy ...
How did first inhabitants see Norilsk future?
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The manuscript contained a fragment dedicated to the future of the city: how the chief designer saw it when Norilsk was just being founded. “Norilsk is the first industrial center of the Arctic. From it, like a spark, the flame of the Taimyr peninsula large ...